From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/11609 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: wmperry@aventail.com (William M. Perry) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Qua Vadis, Quassia? Date: 14 Jul 1997 06:39:26 -0700 Message-ID: <86k9itpxbl.fsf@wmperry.oz.net> References: Reply-To: wmperry@aventail.com NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035151291 31381 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:01:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:01:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Kai Grossjohann , ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id IAA08512 for ; Mon, 14 Jul 1997 08:15:41 -0700 Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA02511 for ; Mon, 14 Jul 1997 10:12:22 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by ifi.uio.no with SMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Mon, 14 Jul 1997 16:18:48 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 32431 invoked by uid 504); 14 Jul 1997 14:18:47 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 32428 invoked from network); 14 Jul 1997 14:18:46 -0000 Original-Received: from newman.aventail.com (root@199.238.236.1) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 14 Jul 1997 14:18:46 -0000 Original-Received: from kramer.in.aventail.com (wmperry@kramer.in.aventail.com [192.168.1.12]) by newman.aventail.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA29482; Mon, 14 Jul 1997 07:18:26 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: (from wmperry@localhost) by kramer.in.aventail.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA16875; Mon, 14 Jul 1997 07:18:26 -0700 Original-To: Michael Huehne Errors-to: wmperry@aventail.com X-Face: O~Rn;(l][/-o1sALg4A@xpE:9-"'IR[%;,,!m7 writes: > >>>>> " Kai" == Kai Grossjohann schreibt: > > >>>>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > >>>>>>> [...] What I had originally planned were some Quassia Gnus > >>>>>>> cups. Well, mugs, rather. Kinda big, solid, heavy mugs > >>>>>>> suitable for sufficient quantaties of tea and/or > >>>>>>> coffee. [...] > > Hi, > > I prefer a really big mug (0,5 liter or more) because nearly every > standard cap design might be to small for my head (65 - 66 cm > circumfence = XXXL for helmets). A price up to 20 US$ including p&p > would be fine for me. > > Gold printing on dark green might be a cool style :-) But how about > a well fitting saucer for this mug project ? > > Most of my mugs do not have a saucer (but one). Some times I get > some chocolate milk rings on my papers and the surface of my > desktop. A saucer might protect your documents too ? Hmmm - not a bad idea, but it'll be one hell of a saucer. Perhaps some people don't have a desk that big. :) > Kai> All the pro-mug people here seem to drink tea, not > Kai> coffee. Wouldn't it be nice to make a poll and add a > Kai> section to the appendix of the Gnus manual along the > Kai> lines of: > > Kai> Did you know that 75% of all Gnus users drink tea, not > Kai> coffee? > > What about the minority drinking chocolate milk like me ? > > Is anybody else out there not even drinking tea or coffee ? I typically drink ~1 gallon of milk per day (not chocolate though). Perhaps a GNUS Millnium Udder is in order? I no longer drink caffeinated drinks (I had to quit cold turkey when I realized I was drinking over a 12-pack a day[1]), and never have drunk tea or coffee (vile stuff). -Bill P. [1] My company provides free soft drinks and snacks - we have hired 9 new people since I stopped drinking pop, and our monthly intake still hasn't gotten back up to where it was when I was. :)